2026-2027 Preseason...

[Rick]

Just now noticed this season's logs are up. Much thanks, Duck Engr, for that and all you do here.

[Rick]

Still eerily bird barren in my neighborhood. Farmer friend let the water off his crawfish ponds and pumped just enough water onto his rice stubble to spur its regrowth for the coming season's crawfish on Call and my favorite playground, which first gave a shorebird show that included the little buggers that's migration precedes teal, then a couple days of squealers in the stubbles to play with and now nothing remains but deer flies and desperate turtles.

And the marsh isn't much more encouraging: as of yesterday, still just scattered woodies and the only concentration of black-bellies, near Neil's blind, hasn't grown appreciably since its appearance on the first of the month. A couple dozen little ducks did get up with them, but I'd not bet the size disparity between they and the squealers didn't turn woodies into "maybe teal".